WRIGHT, ROSANNA, MRS.

WRIGHT, IRVIN, HENDERSON, SANFORD, ATLEE, STRAIN, MYERS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/23/2019 at 20:25:56

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

WRIGHT, ROSANNA, MRS., formerly Miss Rosanna Irvin ; was born in Virginia ; came to Indiana, where she married Thomas Wright in 1827; he was a native of South Carolina and was born in 1801; they lived in Indiana about ten years, then removed to Illinois, where they lived until coming here in 1851 ; Mr. Wright died of cholera in 1850, leaving nine children —Margaret (now Mrs. Henderson, who lives here), Mary, Perry C. (living South), Thomas W. (an engineer), Caroline (now Mrs. Col. Sanford, of Marshalltown), Nancy M. (now Mrs. Samuel Atlee), Ella (now Mrs. Strain, living in California), John T. (an engineer), Artemisia (now Mrs. Myers, of Kansas) ; during the war, Perry C. enlisted, served as ensign in the navy and had charge of the tug dispatch-boat Ivy.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879